The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems

Simic, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0151985758 ISBN 13: 9780151985753

Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989

Language: English

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Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with light shelf wear; interior clean. 2nd printing. Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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Title

The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems

Publisher

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0151985758

ISBN 13

9780151985753

Binding

Hardcover

Printing

2nd Printing

Condition

Near Fine

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Near Fine

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Words plus words relate the poet's reaction to anything; for example, his secret identity: the room is empty, and the window is open

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These 67 prose poems could be from Hamlet's writing tablet: investigating madness, they search for truth. Poet, translator, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, Simic tries to make sense of a world that like "the old river . . . in its confusion sometimes forgets and flows backwards." Ancestors undergo mysterious "dark and evil days" (a man exchanges clothes with a dog, heaven is full of "little shrunken deaf ears instead of stars") that test their sanity. From the best of these sophisticated fables of trial by ordeal, wry intensity flashes. On "the verge of understanding," "in a forest of question marks," Simic's work, mingling Rimbaud and Socrates, startles us into meditation.
- Frank Allen, Allentown Coll., Center Valley, Pa.
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